Import AI 461: 'Alignment is not on track'; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
Researchers from the UK AI Security Institute and Timaeus launch Sequent, a nonprofit aiming to develop principled alignment techniques for superintelligent AI, raising $100-150M initially. Cognition releases FrontierCode, a hard coding benchmark where Claude Opus 4.8 scores 13.4% on the hardest tier. Xiaomi publishes details on MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed, a 1-trillion parameter model achieving 1000 tokens per second via co-design and quantization. A new benchmark, AARRI-Bench, evaluates AI systems on entry-level research tasks.
Cognition
Alibaba/Qwen
Anthropic
OpenAI
Import AI27.07 · 21:04
